gratefulness
gratefulness — 名詞
1. a warm feeling you have toward someone because of a kind thing they did for you,
感謝；感恩
因他人善意或好事而生的溫暖感受
a warm feeling you have toward someone because of a kind thing they did for you, or a similar feeling toward life when good things happen.
Naoko wrote her piano teacher a letter full of gratefulness for years of patient lessons.
Naoko 寫了一封長信給她以前的鋼琴老師，滿是對多年耐心教導的感謝。
gratefulness for + noun phrase
After the surgery went well, Emre felt a deep gratefulness toward every nurse on the ward.
手術順利之後，Emre 對病房裡的每一位護理師都心懷深深的感謝。
gratefulness toward + person
Tears of gratefulness ran down Ife's face when strangers pushed her broken-down car off the road.
當陌生人幫忙把 Ife 拋錨的車推到路邊時，她臉上流下了感激的淚水。
tears of gratefulness (collocation)
Camila keeps a small journal where she writes one sentence of gratefulness every night before bed.
Camila 有一本小本子，她每晚睡前都會寫下一句感恩的話。
There is a quiet gratefulness in the way Eitan greets the morning sun after his long illness.
Eitan 久病初癒後迎接朝陽的方式，透露出一種安靜的感恩。
abstract subject: 'there is a [quality] in the way…'
- feel gratefulness
- express gratefulness
- deep gratefulness
- with gratefulness
- tears of gratefulness
- gratitude
more common; often the outward attitude rather than the inner feeling
- thankfulness
near-synonym; slightly more focused on a single occasion of relief
- appreciation
broader — can be for value or quality, not only kindness received
- ingratitude
the standard opposite — failure to feel or show thanks
- resentment
active negative feeling, often where gratefulness would be expected
文法句型
gratefulness for + noun
gratefulness to + person
用法筆記
Often interchangeable with 'gratitude', but 'gratefulness' tends to describe the inner emotion itself, while 'gratitude' more often names the attitude shown to others. Subject is usually a person; takes 'for' before the cause and 'to/toward' before the person thanked.
常見錯誤
同根字
- grateful形容詞B1
- gratefully副詞B2
- gratitude名詞B2
- ingratitude名詞C1